Missing Equalizer

[sbroadbent]

I tried a brief search, but nothing related seemed to come up.

So, I was attempting to skin the other components (ie standardframe), and one way or another, the equalizer just decided to disappear. I have tried everything I can think of to recover it (including deleting studio.xnf and uninstall/reinstall of winamp).

I think it may have something to do with winamp on my computer possibly WRT this skin, as I tried downloading the latest version of my skin from my website where it has been posted. On my laptop it loaded fine with the equalizer. Getting it from the same location on my desktop, it doesn't load the equalizer.

I can load up other skins fine, it just seems like skins built with my skins specific code (any versions that I've done, even skins that should not normally be affected) no longer load the equalizer.

Any ideas?

[sbroadbent]

Ok, I think I am going crazy now with this issue.

I decided on my desktop (after doing a reinstall about 2 and a half weeks ago) to reinstall WinXP. I came to the conclusion that it *must* be windows that is having this specific issue with winamp.

I redownloaded my skin (tarjav1-2.wal) from my site (one I've verified where the equalizer displays and works properly on my laptop). It still gives me the issue where the equalizer no longer loads up. I also tested the other version of another skin I had been working on (tuomasv1-0.wal) which is based on the same code as my original (it's just different background images). Same issue.

Now, just to verify, I went back to my laptop, downloaded tarjav1-2.wal on my laptop and everything is fine. I downloaded tuomasv1-0.wal on my laptop and the background images from it don't load (I only see any images that had a sysregion="1" attribute). On the other hand, as soon as another song loaded, winamp seemed to pull a new image, and all seems fine with it.

Both my laptop are running WinXP pro. Both have/had SP1 (my desktop after recent reinstall I decided to update to SP2). Both have winamp 5.092.

Since I have not heard of anyone else having a problem with this, I can only guess what could possibly be the problem here.

Can anyone download either skin and tell me if the equalizer doesn't load:
http://www.sbroadbent.com/skins/tarjav1-2.wal
http://www.sbroadbent.com/skins/tuomasv1-0.wal



This makes so little sense.

[carlosp]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah, hahahahahahahahahaha, hahahahahahahahaha, hahahahahahaha. I am really sorry but i must laugh that loudly, just make Desktop Alpha On and you will see why you skin doesnt show the equalizer.

PHP Code:

<layout id="normal" desktopalpha="1" w="500" h="500">
    <group id="eq.normal.group.display"     x="0"  y="0" />
    <group id="eq.normal.group.control"     x="0"  y="0" />
    <group id="eq.normal.group.eq.bands"    x="10" y="35"/>
    <group id="eq.normal.group.eq.controls" x="0"  y="0" />
</layout> 


You have set DA="1" and for that reason you can only see it when DA is on.

Edit:

Ps. The width from songticker is too big, check that Add o border the the skin, the right part looks not good with out a border.

[sbroadbent]

Originally posted by carlosp

PHP Code:

<layout id="normal" desktopalpha="1" w="500" h="500">
    <group id="eq.normal.group.display"     x="0"  y="0" />
    <group id="eq.normal.group.control"     x="0"  y="0" />
    <group id="eq.normal.group.eq.bands"    x="10" y="35"/>
    <group id="eq.normal.group.eq.controls" x="0"  y="0" />
</layout> 


You have set DA="1" and for that reason you can only see it when DA is on.

It had to be as simple as that. I investigated the "reason" I had desktopalpha set, and the cause was the tutorial I borrowed the eq from. When I am learning something new, I try to copy it directly over so that I can make sure that it is working properly (or atleast how it was in the tutorial), and then modify it for my purposes. Somehow I must have turned off desktopalpha on my winamp (or had deleted studio.xnf which will turn off DA). Since DA is only necessary to smooth out rounded objects, that should not be necessary in my case.

Ps. The width from songticker is too big, check that Add o border the the skin, the right part looks not good with out a border.

Which width is too big ? if it's the one I'm thinking about, that is intentional. If it's the "Song.Title" one, the reason for that is 1) I don't want the song title to scroll, 2) Some Song titles are longer than the alotted length of 148 pixels, 3) I didn't want the Song Title's blue background to go further than where it is. In most cases it will be a non-issue because only the longest song titles will go past. I did cap it off at 170 though. For the one band I play, there is only one song (from 4 cds) that have a songtitle longer than 148 pixels. Even then it only stretches 2 characters over the end.

As to having no border along the right side, it was a conscious decision to not have the border go all the way around. Originally, it was only the top part (with the menu, close, shade, minimize buttons) that was going to be there. I originally had a different set of buttons on the background image itself, but the buttons were difficult to see and so I added that titlebar.

Afterwards I created new buttons. When I was adding the bgchanger buttons, I decided to put the controls down there and decided to outline the left side (primarily because many of the control functions are on the left half). I'm currently leaning to not putting a border all the way around (there is a reason why the titlebar doesn't extend *all* the way across). Plus it would mean cutting off some of the image along the right side

[carlosp]

no it isnt, you can make very smooth edges without DA. DA is acctualy only for showing shadow and stuff like that.

[sbroadbent]

Originally posted by carlosp
no it isnt, you can make very smooth edges without DA. DA is acctualy only for showing shadow and stuff like that.

According to the tutorial I have, it blends semi-transparent edges. According to the AlphaDesktop tab in Winamp preferences it does both shadow and smoothing.

Regardless, when I tried removing DesktopAlpha from eq-normal.xml the EQ disappears regardless of whether or not Alpha Blending is enabled or disabled. The only way to have the eq currently display is to have Alpha Blending enabled and desktopalpha="1" in eq-normal.xml. I just added sysregion="1" to:

<layer id="DisplayBG" image="eq.normal.Display.BG" x="0" y="0" w="275" h="150" sysregion="1" />

and it now displays currently.

[carlosp]

hehehe anyway. now you find the misstake and thats good.